TOSYALI WINS THE "RHINE WATER TRANSPORT PIPELINE" (RWTL) TENDER, ONE OF GERMANY'S MOST IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS

Tosçelik Spiral Boru, one of the successful companies of Tosyalı, Türkiye's global steel producer and Europe's largest pipe manufacturer, has won the tender for the "Rhine Water Transport Pipeline" (RWTL), one of the most important environmental transformation projects in Germany, which aims to bring water from the Rhine River for the rehabilitation of unused open mine sites. Within the scope of this project to be carried out by RWE, one of Germany's leading energy companies, Tosçelik Spiral will supply a total of 130,000 tons and 105,600 meters of 2235mm sized large diameter pipes alone.

 Tosçelik Spiral Boru, one of the successful companies of Tosyalı, Türkiye's global steel producer and one of the largest spiral pipe producers in Europe, continues to grow by participating in new projects with the agreements it has made, while continuing to contribute to the green transformation initiated within the scope of the EU Green Deal in many countries in Europe.

Tosyalı will meet 130,000 tons of the project's pipe needs on its own

Moving towards becoming one of the world's leading carbon-free, green steel producers with its sustainability-oriented investments, Tosyalı continues to attract attention as the pipe supplier of new projects in line with this mission. In this context, Tosçelik Spiral Boru, the group's spiral pipe company, recently won the tender for the "Rhine Water Transport Pipeline" (RWTL), one of the most important environmental transformation projects in Germany, which aims to bring water from the Rhine River for the rehabilitation and protection of unused open mine sites. Tosyalı will supply a total of 130,000 tons and 105,600 meters of pipe within the scope of this project to be carried out by RWE, one of Germany's leading energy companies.

Green Transformation Bridge from Türkiye to Germany

By 2030, Germany's RWE power generation company will stop operating coal-fired power plants and opencast mines. With this project, the company plans to rehabilitate the disused opencast mines in Garzweiler and Hambach and reintroduce them to nature in the form of lakes. For this purpose, the company will pump water from the Rhine River in the Dormagen-Rheinfeld region along a 45 km long route through pressurized pipes laid underground. This will not only reintroduce unused open pit mines back into nature, but also provide clean water to protected wetlands.

Tosçelik Spiral pipes made of green steel will be used in the Project

Tosyalı, which RWE has contracted as a supplier in this investment made within the framework of green transformation, realizes the steel production with the lowest carbon footprint in the sector. Tosyalı, which makes sustainability-oriented investments in its facilities in Türkiye and Algeria, is one of the pioneers of the sector in green steel production in the world with its investments in clean energy sources such as solar and hydrogen. In Türkiye, the company has reached 235 MW installed capacity with the SPP project realized with the investment made in all its facilities at the same time, making it the company with the largest rooftop SPP in the world. With this project, it is also one of the world's greenest steel producers by preventing approximately 171 million kg of carbon emissions. Tosyalı also invests in hydrogen, the energy of the future, with new generation technologies. The second DRI production facility in Algeria, which was realized with MIDREX technology, will be able to operate with 100% hydrogen. With these sustainability-oriented investments, Tosyalı produces the world's greenest and most environmentally friendly steel and has the lowest carbon footprint in the world.

In this meaningful investment made by RWE for green transformation, sustainability-oriented, green steel pipes produced by Tosyalı will be used. Construction of the project, which involves the construction of a three-strand steel pipeline on a route of approximately 45 km, is scheduled to start at the end of 2024 and be completed by the end of 2029.